Endless Time

It's only the end of an endless time

I wake up in my own bed, the curtains open wide

To let in what light the sky has to offer today

It's only the end of an endless time

They don't put that in the paper, you won't hear it on the news

But we knew, and it's just like a sunset about to begin

Maybe at first, you can't believe your eyes

The sky all lit in colour and light

It's just the same as right before you left

We would stay up late, your head on my chest

We were still in love and the sun went on making flowers from the mud

We could walk out on the street and buy roses from Spain

Lemons and persimmons in December rain

All of our lives it had been that way

But it's only the end of an endless time

They don't put that in the paper, you won't read it in the news

You have to use your eyes and it's so painful how everybody lies

Nobody tells it straight, they try so hard not to meet your gaze

We can still walk out on the street and buy champagne grapes

Strawberries and lilies in November rain

It never occurred to us to have to pay

But it's only the end of an endless time

We laughed so much we wore lines around our eyes

You can see it in that picture of us from long ago, how we changed

And it happened so slowly, we couldn't even say

I gotta find that picture, I want to look again

I used to think that I could see everything that met my eyes